Word: arundele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dockside. One was James M. Barnes, former Illinois Congressman and one of Franklin Roosevelt's "secret six" assistants. Jim Barnes's imminent departure from Washington was the excuse for the get-together. He was the guest of honor; the President was merely another guest of Russell M. Arundel, Washington attorney, who signed the check at the club...
...spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever while picking ticks off his pet dog; 3) Deale and Shadyside (combined pop. 300), in Maryland's Ann Arundel County, where two people have died and three others have caught Rocky Mountain spotted fever...
Historians of American business have consistently elected to follow one of two extreme paths. They have either been disciples of Ida Tarbell and the muckrakers, or they have trod mincingly behind the apologetic steps of Arundel Cotter's infamous "U.S. Steel: A Coporation with a Soul." Messers. Cochran and Miller, instructors at New York University, have instead attempted to write a chronicle of businesses as an ever-expanding institution. Their task is history, not propaganda...
...Bring me your first chapter in two weeks," said Tarkington. Roberts dashed home, in a week wrote Chapter I of Arundel. Tarkington thought it was fine. Soon, with $1,000 from Publisher Russell Doubleday (who showed "astounding trustfulness"), Roberts rushed off to the cold discomforts of an Italian "palace" where, by "sitting at a desk, facing a blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker...
...such circumstances Arundel's sale was small, but it was steady. Soon Roberts was working on The Lively Lady, an early 19th-Century story of privateering and Dartmoor jail. Then he went back to the American Revolution. Rabble in Arms was finished in the hungry autumn of 1933. Wrote Roberts in his journal: "Finished the proofs. Broke and almost dead." Said A. Hamilton Gibbs: "A masterly presentation of the period." Murmured Friend Alexander Woollcott: "A fine murmurous forest of a book...